The Georgia racketeering laws that have been used in cases against a rapper and a former president have now been turned on protesters who have fiercely opposed a planned police and firefighter training center in Atlanta.
for their efforts opposing"Cop City." Social justice advocates say it's a continued effort to target protesters who participated in the racial justice demonstrations that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and warn that if the charges are successful, their impact could have a chilling effect that stretches beyond Georgia.
“It’s not just the people of Georgia that should be alarmed, it’s across the nation,” Chris Bruce, policy director for the ACLU of Georgia, told Yahoo News. “Because if this actually does go through and stands, this could be used as a playbook for other attorney generals in other states to quell political dissent and put in jeopardy your civil rights and civil liberties.”
Micah Herskind, an organizer and writer based in Atlanta, called the indictments “bipartisan fascism” on X, formerly known as Twitter. "It's the state deploying criminal legal infrastructure to eliminate political dissidents –– to criminalize out of existence those who are fighting for a livable present and future," Herskind, who's used his large following on X to amplify the efforts of the"Stop Cop City" movement,
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